on the first day of christmas, my true love gave to me

[self_composed]

[It is now Christmas in the latest time zone on Earth,] Bella announces, when this becomes the case. [C'mere.]

She has conjured a syringe of venom. There are no known effects relating to any particular person doing the turning, but she's gone ahead and duplicated her alt's venom - what would be hers, if she turned - regardless.

She hides it behind her back and smiles.

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[self_composed]

"I might be getting braindead on how much you love me. Elspeth can do that, if she blasts people with too much vampire-mind," Bella says. "I already got kinda high on it, and if it gets anywhere near dangerous I'd start to worry about my ingot power deciding the mindreading's dangerous like my alt's witchcraft decided Elspeth was dangerous."

[edgeofyourseat]

"That would be bad. I'd hate to have you not read me anymore," he says, wrapping his arms around her shoulders and kissing her forehead. "Will the brain upgrade help?"

[self_composed]

"Should. Have to think about it. I don't think I want to just straight up wish for a vampire brain; from what Bella said it has some drawbacks, which she can handle and I could too but that doesn't make it something I want to move into unedited. Hm." Bella leans her head on Alice's shoulder as she considers, and finally settles on a wish design she likes.

Hex goes.

"Trying this again," she murmurs in his ear, and she opens the package of emotions and does-not-quite-drown.

But only not-quite.

[edgeofyourseat]

"Better?" he asks.

[self_composed]

"Yeahhhh," she sighs.

And then it becomes a good thing that Lazarus has gone.

[edgeofyourseat]

Also a good thing that Bella is unsquishable.